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Federal candidates running in competitive congressional races have raised much more money than in previous midterm election cycles, but not all candidates entered the 2022 general election season on even financial footing. Black women and Latina candidates reported far less cash on hand than other federal candidates at the end of their primary season, a […]
New Orleans Democrat mayor has declared economy class flights unsafe for black women, while insisting she wont repay $30,000 of taxpayers’ money blown on first-class flights to France and Switzerland. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, LaToya Cantrell said: ‘My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury. ‘As all women know, our […]
In the US, a 71-year-old Black woman who won a jackpot filed a lawsuit against three white bank employees who refused to deposit her check or return it to her. Retired school employee from Michigan, Lizzie Pugh, hit the jackpot on a slot machine at a casino. She went to Fifth Third Bank in Livonia, Michigan, to deposit her […]
RAPPER Kodak Black has been arrested after Oxycodone pills and almost $75,000 in cash were found in his car during a traffic stop, cops said. Black, whose real name is Bill Kahan Kapri, was allegedly in possession of 31 Oxycodone pills and $74,960 in cash, Florida Highway Patrol confirmed to The US Sun. 2 Black […]
RAPPER Kodak Black has been arrested after he was found with Oxycodone pills and nearly $75,000 cash in his car during a traffic stop. Black, whose real name is Bill Kahan Kapri, was in possession of 31 Oxycodone pills and $74,960 in cash, Florida Highway Patrol confirmed to The US Sun. 2 Black was arrested […]
In the middle of the national rail strike last month when demand for cabs was sky-high, a group of Uber drivers decided they, too, would strike for 24 hours. A few hundred of them marched in protest to Uber’s London office in Aldgate Tower, complaining of poverty pay and arbitrary management by algorithm. It was […]
By Sarah Melotte “This land means so much to me, because I was there when my father saved his pennies and nickels and dimes to buy this land,” said Ercelle Chillis of South Carolina in an interview with the Charleston Regional Business Journal. “I was there when he struggled, pushed that cart in the street. […]
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s arming of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. While avoiding directly mentioning Iran, the 5th Fleet’s decision to offer cash and other goods […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on Sunday extended school closures for one week because there isn’t enough fuel for teachers and parents to get children to classrooms, and the energy minister appealed to the country’s expatriates to send money home through banks to finance new oil purchases. A huge foreign debt has left […]
“It’s tiring, because I’m (trying) to find steady income,” said Sheila, 33, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. But this week, she will start receiving regular cash payments totaling $20,400 over two years under a guaranteed income programme supporting hundreds of lower-income Black women in the state. “It’s going to be a […]